Abstract
Although submarine slides, slumps and debris flows have long been recognised as major features of continental and basin slopes, there have been few attempts to incorporate them into sedimentological facies models applicable to ancient rocks. A major problem is that of scale: most slumps, slides and flows identified from surveys of present-day submarine slopes have areal extents of several kilometres (e.g. Embley, 1976; Jacobi, 1976), so that only small parts of an individual slump body are sampled by either cores or most land outcrops. Thin-bedded debris-flow deposits are an important constituent facies in the slope environment. In this paper we analyse the mechanism of deposition of these thin-bedded deposits.
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Hill, P.R., Aksu, A.E., Piper, D.J.W. (1982). The Deposition of Thin Bedded Subsqueous Debris Flow Deposits. In: Saxov, S., Nieuwenhuis, J.K. (eds) Marine Slides and Other Mass Movements. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3362-3_16
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